Joint AAPG/SEG Distinguished Lecturer,
Fall 2011

Seismic detection of faults and fractures
Presented by Satinder Chopra
Arcis Corporation, Calgary

Satinder Chopra received M.Sc. and M.Phil. degrees in physics from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India. He joined the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) of India in 1984 and served there till 1997. In 1998 he joined CTC Pulsonic at Calgary, which later became Scott Pickford and Core Laboratories Reservoir Technologies. Currently, he is working as Chief Geophysicist (Reservoir), at Arcis Corporation, Calgary. In the last 27 years Satinder has worked in regular seismic processing and interactive interpretation, but has spent more time in special processing of seismic data involving seismic attributes including coherence, curvature and texture attributes, seismic inversion, AVO, VSP processing and frequency enhancement of seismic data. His research interests focus on techniques that are aimed at characterization of reservoirs. He has published 7 books and more than 200 papers and abstracts and likes to make presentations at any beckoning opportunity. He is the Chief Editor of the CSEG RECORDER, a past member of the SEG The Leading Edge Editorial Board, and the Ex-Chairman of the SEG Publications Committee. He was the CSEG Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-2011. 

He is the recipient of several awards at ONGC, CSEG and SEG, and more recently has received the AAPG George C. Matson Award for his paper entitled Delineating stratigraphic features via cross-plotting of seismic discontinuity attributes and their volume visualization, being adjudged as the best oral presentation at the 2010 AAPG Annual Convention held at New Orleans. He is a member of SEG, CSEG, CSPG, CHOA (Canadian Heavy Oil Association), EAGE, AAPG, APEGGA (Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta) and TBPG (Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists).